The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #70877   Message #1211450
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Jun-04 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Annexation
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Annexation
I wasn't suggesting "jingo" was a new word in 1846 - merely noting that it was used in that year in the context of a song that was specifically about what would later be called jingoism, a generation before the business in 1878 with the better known song, which wasn't about jingoism but rather served as a defining example of it.